Axial is the largest platform on the internet for buying, selling, advising, and financing private companies, serving the lower middle market.

Axial is the trusted financial technology platform for business owners and their M&A advisors to safely and intelligently research, connect and transact with strategic and financial capital partners.  

Founded in 2010, Axial has facilitated over 2000 closed transactions, and built a network with over 10,000 financial investors, M&A advisory firms and company executives active in the lower middle market.

Axial members focus on change of control, minority equity, debt, and co-investment transactions involving US & Canadian businesses doing $5M - $250M in revenue.

Axial is headquartered in New York, NY.

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We’re pleased to share this month's installment of Axial’s Partner Spotlight series, where we highlight one of our sell-side members, including the firm’s track record and accolades via Axial.

This month we're excited to recognize New Direction Partners, LLC, an M&A advisory firm headquartered in Valley Forge, PA.

Founded in 2008, New Direction Partners specializes in providing M&A services to the printing, packaging and allied graphic arts industries. The team has closed hundreds of M&A deals in these sectors dating back to 1979, with transactions exceeding $2 billion in aggregate.

For more information on New Direction Partners or the Partner Spotlight series, please contact Conor Cunnane.

The Q1 2024 issue of The SMB M&A Pipeline is live!

This quarterly series surfaces a top-of-the-funnel breakdown of the deal activity occurring on Axial’s platform. The aggregated metrics include quarterly deal volumes, financial and geographic characteristics, and pursuit rates, sorted by industry category.

Pursuit Rates:
“Pursuit rate” measures the rate at which Axial’s buyside members register interest in a deal that an Axial sell-side member has invited them to consider. 

If NDAs, IOIs, and LOIs reflect the deepening progression of interest among acquirers on a given deal, the pursuit rate is one step higher in the funnel than the signed NDA. It offers insight into the forward deal pipeline and the initial interest level of prospective Axial buyside members.

Deal Volume vs. Pursuit Rate:
Despite ranking in the top three for overall deal volume in Q1, Food & Hospitality and Consumer Goods were at the bottom for pursuit rate, ranking 7th and 6th, respectively. Healthcare also had a significant discrepancy, ranking 5th in deal volume, but 1st in pursuit rate.

Click the link below to review the full report.

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The 3rd edition of Axial's latest newsletter, Exit Ready Roundup, is out now!
 
Last quarter, the Axial team spoke with more than 75 business owners who were evaluating our Advisor Finder Program or looking to leverage the Axial Platform as they began to explore a sale or capital raise.
 
To shed more light on the types of businesses and owners in these stages of the exit process, we gathered data from a sample of 40 of those conversations (table below).

To read more, click the link for the full version of Exit Ready Roundup.

https://lnkd.in/gdpXXvhP

On today's episode of Masters in Small Business M&A, Peter Lehrman sits down with Matt Plooster, founder and CEO of Bridgepoint Investment Banking. 

The conversation begins with a background on private credit and its origins. They proceed to cover its growth, its arrival in the lower middle market, and how business owners can think about its features, risks, utility, and applicability.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

https://lnkd.in/g_xNscZS

The March 2023 issue of Deal Digest is live!

Deal Digest is your monthly source of member news, deal announcements, and all things lower middle market.

Special shoutout to Axial member and sell-side partner firm FOCUS Investment Banking for sponsoring this issue.

FOCUS has represented 181 total deals on the Axial platform, has been featured on Axial League Tables 10 times, and has made 8 Industry Top 50 lists. 👏

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